Chapter Summaries

Su Ming found himself in Gotham in the body of Deathstroke, a powerful mercenary whose memories he did not inherit. He tried to assess the dangers of the DC Universe and left the rooftop seeking shelter, uncertain about what Deathstroke had been planning.

• Su Ming recognized Gotham from the Bat-Signal and realized he had inexplicably arrived in another world.
• He saw that he had become Deathstroke, inheriting his enhanced body and skills but not his memories.
• Su Ming considered Deathstroke’s enemies and the danger of landing in an unknown DC Universe timeline.
• He wondered why Deathstroke had been armed on Wayne Tower’s roof, then decided to take the stairs and find shelter from the rain.

Su Ming, inhabiting a young Deathstroke’s body, encountered Cindy, the female Deathstroke of Earth-11, and the two discovered their identical skills and habits. After realizing which parallel world he had arrived in, Su Ming suspected that crossing between worlds had made him younger.

• Su Ming met another Deathstroke on a rainy rooftop, and the two fought to a draw while mirroring each other’s moves.
• They stopped fighting, introduced themselves as Slade Su Ming and Cindy, and ruled out being clones.
• Cindy and Su Ming removed their masks and discovered that Cindy was a young woman while Su Ming was a young man, both missing their right eyes.
• Cindy mentioned Wonder Man, leading Su Ming to recognize the world as Earth-11, where women held power and familiar heroes and villains had gender-swapped counterparts.
• Su Ming concluded that Cindy was Earth-11’s Deathstroke and suspected that crossing between parallel worlds had made him younger.

Su Ming told Cindy that Earth -11 faced destruction through a coming war between the Amazons and Atlantis, and she believed him. They agreed to find Harley and search for Batman, whose disappearance might be tied to the Jester’s job.

• Su Ming told Cindy he came from a Parallel World and asked about Gotham, while Cindy described a previous traveler who had returned to his own world.
• Cindy explained that she had been hired by the Jester to find Batman and deliver a message about big, big good news waiting for her in Arkham.
• Su Ming warned Cindy that Earth -11 would be destroyed by a flood after Bliss Wayne killed Aquawoman, and Cindy accepted his warning as credible.
• Su Ming and Cindy agreed to work together to prevent the catastrophe and decided to seek Harley after concluding the Jester would not help them find Batman.

Su Ming and Cindy left Wayne Enterprises to find Harley Quinn, but a Joker Gang ambush forced Su Ming to kill for the first time in Gotham. They reached Harley’s hideout and heard her exercising upstairs, leaving them about to confront her.

• Cindy stole wine from Bliss Wayne’s office and led Su Ming through the unconscious guards at Wayne Enterprises.
• Cindy drove Su Ming toward Joker Gang territory, and they discussed Gotham’s danger and Su Ming’s reluctance to kill.
• A rocket destroyed Cindy’s car, and Joker Gang Members attacked them with heavy gunfire.
• Su Ming and Cindy killed the attackers, and Su Ming accepted how easily Deathstroke’s instincts led him to kill.
• Cindy and Su Ming reached a lit building and heard Harley Quinn working out to loud music upstairs.

Su Ming and Cindy fought their way through Harley Quinn’s building and found her dancing in a circus-themed room. They also noticed an unknown person seated on a sofa nearby, leaving them facing an unexpected presence.

• Su Ming and Cindy climbed into Harley’s building, discovered a grenade trap, and were ambushed by Joker Gang Members.
• Su Ming killed forty-two attackers in six seconds while Cindy watched the upper floors and then joined him.
• Cindy and Su Ming searched the fourth floor and found weapons, explosives, and other Joker-themed supplies.
• Cindy led Su Ming upstairs toward Harley’s music, and they entered a circus-themed dance room.
• They found Harley Quinn pole dancing and spotted another person seated with their back to them on a sofa.

Harley searched Gotham for Batwoman after Jester asked her to bring Batwoman to Arkham, but her partying kept her from noticing whether the vigilante came. Su Ming and Cindy learned that Jester did not know Batwoman’s location, then encountered Poison Ivy at Harley’s home and left the search unresolved as Harley became curious about them.

• Harley received Jester’s letter asking her to find Batwoman, and she sent the Circus to search Gotham while leaving signs to lure Batwoman to her home.
• Harley searched for Batwoman for three nights, then began drinking and partying with Poison Ivy while waiting for her to arrive.
• A recording from Jester reached Deathstroke, and Cindy joined the search for Batwoman before meeting Su Ming.
• Cindy and Su Ming confronted Harley and learned that she did not know where Batwoman was, confirming that Jester had sent her to search rather than giving her a location.
• Poison Ivy overheard Cindy and Su Ming, but Su Ming revealed his face and proposed that they share their goal of finding Batwoman.
• Harley dismissed the search and said she was more interested in hearing Su Ming and Cindy’s story.

Su Ming questioned Harley and learned that Jester had warned her Earth was doomed, though Harley did not know how it would happen. After leaving Harley and Poison Ivy, Su Ming and Cindy decided to find someone Batman would be compelled to rescue and use him to draw her out.

• Harley told Su Ming about Jester and confirmed she knew Earth was about to be destroyed, but she had no details about the cause.
• Poison Ivy learned the world was ending and worried about her plants, while Su Ming explained that he and Cindy could not escape to another universe.
• Su Ming told Harley and Poison Ivy that the Great Flood would destroy the world, then left with Cindy.
• As they searched for transport, Cindy told Su Ming that Batwoman and Alfred had left Wayne Manor without signs of a struggle, and that the Batcave surveillance system required Batwoman's eyes and palm.
• Su Ming and Cindy found unicycles and rode toward someone they believed would not leave with Bliss, planning to make a scene and force Batman to come rescue him.

James Gordon reflected on Gotham’s long history of crime and Batwoman’s role in protecting the city, then learned that an unknown threat might endanger Gotham and the entire Earth. Bliss Wayne prepared to leave Gotham, but Gordon and Barbara refused to abandon the city.

• Gordon recalled how Batwoman had helped him bring down Falcone and later handled the dangerous villains drawn to Gotham.
• Gordon remembered how Jester crippled Barbara, escaped Arkham repeatedly, and remained a threat despite currently staying quiet.
• Bliss Wayne visited Gordon at home and warned him that an unknown danger required her to leave Gotham, urging him and Barbara to come with her.
• Gordon refused to leave his post as police chief, and Barbara insisted on staying with him and helping from the police department’s communications room.
• Bliss left to meet Alfred, while Gordon and Barbara stayed behind in Gotham.

Commissioner Gordon was kidnapped by a gang after finding a dead woman in the rain, while Su Ming and Cindy raced toward the GCPD to abduct him and lure Batwoman out. They heard gunfire and a grenade explode inside the precinct, suggesting someone had reached Gordon first.

• Gordon left Arkham after confirming Jester was still in her cell and drove through the storm toward the precinct.
• Gordon found a dead woman in Beast Hide by the roadside and examined her before a gang surrounded him.
• The gang announced that their boss wanted Gordon and said another team had gone to take his daughter, then forced him into a van.
• Su Ming and Cindy rode toward the GCPD, planning to kidnap Gordon and use his safety to make Batwoman appear.
• Su Ming and Cindy heard gunfire and a grenade explode inside the precinct, so they sped toward it.

Su Ming and Cindy attacked the Men in Black who had stormed the Gotham Police Department, then fought through the station’s basement while trying to learn who they were targeting. They reached the reinforced communications-room door and prepared to breach it, leaving the people inside unidentified.

• Su Ming and Cindy found the police station under attack and saw Men in Black guarding its entrance among dead officers.
• Su Ming killed the guards outside, questioned a surviving woman, and entered the station with Cindy after she threatened them on behalf of her boss.
• Su Ming and Cindy discovered that gunfire was coming from the basement, where police officers were defending the communications room against the Men in Black.
• Cindy and Su Ming divided their opponents, with Cindy killing the Men in Black and Su Ming incapacitating the police while trying to keep them alive.
• Cindy placed a small explosive charge on the communications-room door as Su Ming warned her to use minimal force.

Barbara Gordon was trapped in the police station communications room during a Men in Black attack until Su Ming and Cindy arrived and defeated the attackers. Cindy restored the station’s network, while Su Ming and Cindy sought a way to contact Gordon and learn why he was missing.

• Barbara volunteered in the communications room and warned the police when Men in Black attacked the station, but the attackers cut off its outside communications.
• After gunfire stopped, Su Ming and Cindy blasted open the communications-room door and found Barbara and her coworkers inside.
• Barbara mistook Su Ming and Cindy for two Deathstrokes, but Cindy identified herself as Deathstroke and said they had come to find Gordon.
• Su Ming told Barbara the Men in Black were targeting her and Gordon, and proposed contacting Gordon after destroying their signal jammer.
• Cindy destroyed the jammer and restored the station’s network, then reported that an informant had physically cut the network from inside the station.

Su Ming and Cindy helped Barbara trace Commissioner Gordon’s phone to a no-man’s-land in Gotham, but the surveillance footage had been tampered with. With Batwoman missing and Gordon still in danger, they prepared to investigate the scene and agreed to bring Barbara along.

• Cindy promised Barbara they would protect Gordon, and Barbara discovered that his phone was no longer answering.
• Barbara hacked a Wayne Enterprises carrier server and traced Gordon’s phone from Arkham to a street where Black Mask, Red Hood, and Two-Face’s territories met.
• Barbara could not reach Batwoman, who had left Gotham after warning Gordon that danger was coming.
• Su Ming guided Barbara to retrieve traffic footage, but they found it had been looped and revealed only a black-gloved hand near a camera.
• Cindy agreed to take Barbara to investigate, and Su Ming gave her a raincoat and told her to bring her computer and wireless network card.

Su Ming, Cindy, and Barbara searched for transport after the police station battle, while Vicki Vale and her cameraman Pete arrived to report on the massacre. The chapter ended as Pete reacted in terror to something Vicki had not yet noticed.

• Su Ming and Cindy discussed their altered emotions as Barbara joined them in the lobby.
• Su Ming discovered Cindy had destroyed the vehicles in the parking lot while trying to disable a signal jammer, and Barbara directed him toward the underground garage.
• Vicki Vale and Pete drove a stolen GCTV1 news truck to the police station after hearing reports of gunfire from her blind informant.
• Vicki and Pete filmed an exclusive report amid the wreckage and bodies inside the station.
• Pete abruptly screamed and covered his face while Vicki was coaching him on how to look frightened on camera.

Su Ming forced Vicki Vale and Pete to broadcast his demands as Deathstroke, using Barbara Gordon to threaten the people who had kidnapped Commissioner Gordon. The station aired his warning across Gotham, leaving its staff and viewers terrified.

• Su Ming approached Vicki Vale and Pete at the police station and ordered them to help him appear on television live.
• Vicki and Pete edited their footage and sent it to Gotham Television Station, whose director approved the report as viewers’ interest surged.
• Su Ming took over the live broadcast, identified Barbara Gordon, and threatened the Men in Black until they handed Commissioner Gordon over alive.
• Su Ming appeared to shoot Barbara, offered an assassination in exchange for useful information, and demanded that the station replay his footage around the clock.
• The broadcast ended, and the studio anchor panicked as Gotham viewers watched in fear.

Su Ming transported Barbara, Vicki, and Pete through Gotham while explaining that invoking Deathstroke’s name might buy time to save Commissioner Gordon. Vicki interviewed him and arranged to film the rescue, leaving the group laughing as they continued toward clues about Gordon’s kidnappers.

• Su Ming put the soaked Barbara in the carriage and said using his name as a threat could make Gordon’s kidnappers hesitate.
• Vicki asked whether Su Ming thought he was mentally ill, and he replied by asking whether the world was normal.
• Cindy drove through the storm, and Gotham’s robbers fled when she leaned out of the vehicle.
• Su Ming offered Vicki the chance to film a fight if they found Gordon’s kidnappers, and she eagerly accepted.
• Vicki asked about Su Ming’s relationship with Cindy and requested an introduction to Batwoman or Jester, while Barbara tensed at Jester’s name.

Su Ming and Cindy investigated the scene of Commissioner Gordon’s disappearance and found the body of a League of Assassins member, raising the threat to Gordon’s life. They split up to search nearby buildings as Vicki noticed something at the corpse.

• Su Ming inspected Gordon’s abandoned car and ruled out vehicle trouble as the reason he had left it.
• Cindy found a body in the sewage and recovered devices attached to a roadside surveillance camera.
• Su Ming and Cindy examined the corpse and concluded that the woman had been interrogated, executed, and dumped there.
• Su Ming and Cindy identified the dead woman as a member of the League of Assassins and realized its killers could soon reach Gotham.
• Su Ming and Cindy searched opposite sides of the street while Vicki filmed the body and spotted something near its wound.

Su Ming, Cindy, and Barbara searched for leads on Commissioner Gordon’s kidnappers but found only Gordon’s glasses, which contained a license plate number. With traffic surveillance unavailable, Su Ming proposed taking Barbara to a place with Gotham’s information, leaving her to decide whether she was willing to risk going there.

• Su Ming and Cindy found no witnesses or useful evidence at the cleaned building, and they concluded Gordon was likely still alive.
• Su Ming and Cindy discussed the likely perpetrators while Barbara worried that Gordon might have only three hours left to live.
• Vicki revealed that she had found Gordon’s glasses underwater and claimed the promised reward for bringing them back.
• Su Ming and Cindy recognized scratches on the lenses as a license plate number, but Barbara found the city traffic surveillance server offline.
• Su Ming offered to take Barbara somewhere with Gotham’s information, and Cindy told them to blindfold the others and remove their SIM cards so they could not remember the route.

Su Ming, Cindy, Barbara, and Vicki investigated the ritual killings, and Vicki identified the culprit as the Roman Falcone. They concluded Falcone had returned and was provoking the League of Assassins, though Su Ming wondered why and how Gordon's kidnapping fit into his plans.

• Su Ming blindfolded Vicki, Barbara, and Cindy while they traveled, and Vicki bargained for a chance to reveal her clue.
• Vicki explained that the corpse's wounds matched an ancient Roman punishment called Abdominal Dissection Punishment, leading her to identify the Roman as Falcone.
• Cindy recalled Falcone's old hatred of Gordon and Batwoman, while Barbara noted that he had been released from Blackgate on medical parole.
• The group concluded that Falcone had likely returned and deliberately left his signature on the bodies to challenge the League of Assassins.
• As the storm worsened on the drive to Wayne Manor, Su Ming questioned why Falcone was targeting the League and how his scheme related to Gordon's kidnapping.

Su Ming and Cindy brought Barbara, Vicki, and Pete to the Batcave, where Barbara began hacking into its server to search for information about her missing father. As Su Ming explored the cave, he noticed its mechanical dinosaur was missing and asked Cindy what had happened to it.

• Cindy drove the group through the storm and into the Batcave, parking beside the Batmobile.
• Su Ming admired the Batmobile and told Cindy that Barbara could help them access information.
• Vicki began preparing to film a special report in the Batcave while Pete operated the camera.
• Cindy brought Barbara to the server, and Barbara connected her laptop to crack Batwoman's security.
• Su Ming explored the cave and asked Cindy what had happened to its missing dinosaur.

Su Ming fought the mechanical dinosaur that guarded Batwoman’s mainframe and brought it down by exploiting its attack patterns. The dinosaur stopped moving, leaving Su Ming standing safely on its head in the Batcave.

• The mechanical dinosaur activated when Barbara connected to the mainframe, and Su Ming and Cindy realized it was the cave’s physical security measure.
• Su Ming drew the dinosaur away from Barbara and the mainframe while Cindy guarded them and Vicki had Pete film the fight.
• Su Ming worked out that the dinosaur’s tail could strike its own head and repeatedly baited it into damaging the same spot.
• Su Ming stabbed his Katana into the resulting gap, then fired every remaining shotgun shell inside the dinosaur’s head.
• The dinosaur stopped moving and toppled over, carrying Su Ming safely to the ground.